Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Left: 2001-2003 Toyota Prius (THS). Regenerative braking is accomplished by allowing a vehicle’s electric motor-generator to spin freely, generating an alternating current which is rectified to direct current to charge the vehicle’s battery pack. Comparison of regenerative/hydraulic (friction) braking ratios under normal braking.

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Hybrid Design Prius Toyota 268

Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles has leapt by more than 50 per cent from 172 to 264 after the company added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting existing models. These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock.

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Fleet Hybrid San Diego Eaton 36

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2015

Battery pack (kWh). kWh Li-ion battery pack—acceleration improves by about 9% (0-62 mph in 5.6 Volvo had proposed an early version of the Crankshaft-Integrated Starter Generator (C-ISG) in 2001; that 42V system was intended for a mild hybrid application. Displacement (cm 3 ). System power (hp). System torque (lb-ft).

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Volvo Plug-in PHEV Engine 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Fuel cell technology is running in comepetition with long-range battery electric vehicles. The Isenbüttel site was chosen for this center and construction of a special research center for electric drivetrains began in 2001. kWh battery pack and an additional electric motor in the rear. mi) by a battery with a capacity of 8.8

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Audi Hydrogen Fuel Concept 278

Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

The founders of Google have made personal investments in Tesla as befits dotcom billionaires, and they're converting Priuses to plug-in hybrids for the company fleet with battery maker A123. Google founder Sergey Brin drove one of the 2001 Th!nk Perhaps Toyota’s battery division is having problems.

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NiMH Google Prius EPRI 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

PHEVs with "Good Enough to Get Started" batteries. The nonprofit CalCars does conversions to demonstrate new designs and provide a platform for different batteries; we dont sell conversions. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Nickel Metal Hydride 41

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

CA, NY, MA and other states have had Zero-Emission Vehicle programs since the early 1990s because battery electric vehicles in those states, taking into account power plants, are far cleaner than gasoline cars in reducing urban air pollution and smog. The Bottom Line Plug-ins cost more mainly because batteries are expensive.

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Plug-in Plugin Plug Hybrid 61

Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Starting around 2001, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride fomented a revolution in lighting that has been, by some measures, the fastest technology shift in human history. Basically, the input AC voltage is converted to DC, and then that DC is “chopped” into a high-frequency alternating-current square wave.

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Green Conversion Power Powered 110

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. htm Advocates of the Th!

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